Coming in the midst of the ongoing assembly polls, and just months before Lok Sabha elections, farmers' protest is an imagery Modi govt can ill-afford.
Radha Mohan Singh has been kept out of the list of BJP star campaigners over apprehensions that the agriculture minister could face protests from farmers.
With India’s highest farm growth for a decade, Shivraj Chouhan should’ve been sitting pretty. He’s struggling because our farm economics & politics is broken.
Ashish Gupta, Brand Director for Skoda India, said while performance cars like the Octavia RS are not too cheap, ‘car buyers who know and love their cars find them to be far better bang for the buck’.
WhatsApp privacy policy case is among a string of matters involving practices like restrictive platform rules, pricing & billing policies, reflecting India’s tight scrutiny of market dominance.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
Doubling of farmers’ incomes is gimmicky, all the more when the achievement has been an annual crawl of about 1% increase. Promises, like building one hundred Smart Cities, must take note of ground realities. The distress in rural India – the advisers on demonetisation appear never to have visited a village or met a farmer – is widespread, and deepening. It can only be mitigated by much faster overall growth. Politics divorced from economic development is bound to be short lived.
Doubling of farmers’ incomes is gimmicky, all the more when the achievement has been an annual crawl of about 1% increase. Promises, like building one hundred Smart Cities, must take note of ground realities. The distress in rural India – the advisers on demonetisation appear never to have visited a village or met a farmer – is widespread, and deepening. It can only be mitigated by much faster overall growth. Politics divorced from economic development is bound to be short lived.